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• Judge refuses to order release of Garner grand jury transcripts
• Texas Senate approves bill to allow guns on college campuses
• Pentagon official who sought to move judges to Guantanamo quits
• IS claims deadly museum attack in Tunisia
• Lawsuit targets U.S. program on suspicious behavior at airports
• Tunisia makes arrests after deadly museum attack
• Some video of Secret Service scandal may have been erased: CNN
• Why Mitt Romney isn't running for president
• Apparent murder-suicide investigated in California wine country: newspaper
• Matt Bai: A Yelp for teachers
• Accused murderer Robert Durst deemed 'suicidal'
• Two more U.S. healthcare workers repatriated for Ebola monitoring
• Affidavit: LAPD analyst's error delayed Robert Durst link
• One killed, five wounded in shooting spree in Phoenix suburb
• Obama joins millions in U.S. college basketball madness
• Starbucks brews backlash with debate on U.S. race relations
• Obama joins millions in U.S. college basketball madness
• New York charges Narco Freedom executives in alleged Medicaid fraud scheme
• Yahoo News’ Capitol Hill Bracket Challenge
• Glenn Beck: 'I'm out of the Republican Party — I am not a Republican'

Judge refuses to order release of Garner grand jury transcripts Posted: 19 Mar 2015 12:46 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York state judge on Thursday refused to order the release the transcripts of secret grand jury proceedings into the killing of an unarmed black man last July by a white police officer who put him in a chokehold. Acting Supreme Court Justice William Garnett said that civil liberty groups, the news media, public defenders and New York's elected public advocate had not shown that they had a need for the records. (Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe)

Texas Senate approves bill to allow guns on college campuses Posted: 19 Mar 2015 11:59 AM PDT By Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - The Texas Senate on Thursday approved a measure to allow licensed handguns on college campuses, part of a series of bills being considered that would expand gun rights. In a vote along party lines, the state Senate approved the bill, which will be sent to the House. "My concern is to expand freedom of the most trustworthy citizens to access property they as citizens of this state own," said Senator Brian Birdwell, a Republican sponsor of the legislation. "There is great concern that the presence of handguns, even if limited to licensed individuals age 21 or older, will lead to an increase in both accidental shootings and self-inflicted wounds," University of Texas System Chancellor William McRaven wrote to lawmakers this year.

Pentagon official who sought to move judges to Guantanamo quits Posted: 19 Mar 2015 09:33 AM PDT A Pentagon official who sought to move military judges to Guantanamo Bay to speed up slow-moving trials of al Qaeda suspects is resigning, the Defense Department has said. Retired Marine Corps Major General Vaugh Ary, who sparked a judicial rebellion as overseer of military tribunals at the U.S. naval base in Cuba, will be replaced on an interim basis by Paul Oostburg Sanz, the general counsel of the Navy Department, the Pentagon said in a Wednesday statement.

IS claims deadly museum attack in Tunisia Posted: 19 Mar 2015 08:46 AM PDT According to an online audio recording, the Islamic State militant group has claimed responsibility for an attack on a museum in the Tunisian capital on Wednesday which killed 20 foreign tourists. It praised the two attackers whom the recording said were "knights of the Islamic State" who were armed with machineguns and bombs. (Reporting By Omar Fahmy; Writing by Noah Browning; Editing by Toby Chopra)

Lawsuit targets U.S. program on suspicious behavior at airports Posted: 19 Mar 2015 07:25 AM PDT By Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A civil liberties group on Thursday sued the U.S. government for information about a program that screens airport passengers using behavior detection techniques that it says is a vehicle for racial and religious profiling. The effectiveness of the Transportation Security Administration program, which uses thousands of TSA employees to screen nearly 2 million airline passengers daily for fear, stress and other behavior, has been questioned by government watchdogs and in congressional hearings. An American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit filed on Thursday seeks to force the TSA to hand over documents about the Screening Passengers by Observation Techniques (SPOT) program. "The TSA's use of behavior techniques has given rise to numerous allegations of racial and religious profiling," the lawsuit said.

Tunisia makes arrests after deadly museum attack Posted: 19 Mar 2015 06:21 AM PDT Authorities have arrested nine people in connection with a gun attack at the Bardo Museum in Tunis that killed 22 people and two alleged attackers, a spokeswoman for the Tunisian presidential office told ABC News.

Some video of Secret Service scandal may have been erased: CNN Posted: 19 Mar 2015 06:04 AM PDT Surveillance video of two U.S. Secret Service agents drunk driving at the White House may have been erased as part of the agency's policy of deleting recordings every 72 hours, CNN reported on Thursday. Two videos of the incident, where the agents slowly pulled onto White House grounds and into an active bomb investigation, exist, but the chairman of the House of Representatives Oversight Committee, Jason Chaffetz, told CNN that he learned other recordings may have been deleted. The director of the agency charged with protecting the president as well as other agents, Joseph Clancy, is set to testify about this latest scandal before a Senate committee Thursday afternoon. He testified earlier this week at the House of Representatives.

Why Mitt Romney isn't running for president Posted: 19 Mar 2015 04:12 AM PDT The former GOP candidate tells Yahoo's Katie Couric the reason he decided not to run again.

Apparent murder-suicide investigated in California wine country: newspaper Posted: 19 Mar 2015 03:23 AM PDT Authorities on Wednesday were investigating an apparent murder-suicide in Napa, California's wine-producing region north of San Francisco, that left a troubled vineyard owner and his business partner dead, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Napa County Sheriff's Captain Doug Pike said investigators found 1,000 rounds of ammunition in the car of Robert Dahl, the owner of Dahl Vineyards, who apparently shot and killed Emad Tawfilis and then shot himself dead on Monday, the Chronicle said.

Matt Bai: A Yelp for teachers Posted: 19 Mar 2015 02:52 AM PDT Maybe what we need, and what teachers should welcome, isn't the data on the test scores and "value-added" rankings that some parents are demanding — or, at least, not that alone. What we need is for some tech entrepreneur to come up with a Yelp or an Angie's List for public schools, because the amalgamated voice of the consumer is the most powerful kind of accountability in American life.

Accused murderer Robert Durst deemed 'suicidal' Posted: 18 Mar 2015 10:00 PM PDT By Jonathan Kaminsky NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Robert Durst, the real estate scion charged with first-degree murder, is suicidal, according statements by Louisiana authorities released on Wednesday after they moved him to a facility for inmates suffering from acute mental illness. Awaiting extradition to California, the 71-year-old Durst was charged this week in Los Angeles County with killing longtime friend Susan Berman in 2000. Three of Durst's condominiums in Houston were searched on Tuesday, and there have also been investigations in northern California, where the disappearances of two teenagers in 1997 raised questions about his whereabouts at the time. The heir to a New York real estate dynasty was arrested in New Orleans on Saturday with a handgun, marijuana, a fake ID and over $42,000 in cash, records show, one day before the airing of the final installment of an HBO documentary, "The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst." In it, Durst was presented with evidence of similar handwriting on two envelopes, one from himself and another that likely originated from Berman's killer.

Two more U.S. healthcare workers repatriated for Ebola monitoring Posted: 18 Mar 2015 09:45 PM PDT (Reuters) - The last two members of a group of U.S. healthcare workers whose colleague is being treated for the Ebola virus returned on Wednesday from Sierra Leone to the United States, where they are being monitored for possible exposure to the deadly virus. Their repatriation brought the total number of Americans brought back from the West African nation to 18 since last Friday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday night. "They were part of the same group that have been coming back slowly, said CDC spokeswoman Jennifer McQuiston. Neither of the two healthcare workers brought back Wednesday has tested positive for Ebola, but they are being monitored because they might have been exposed to a colleague who has contracted it.

Affidavit: LAPD analyst's error delayed Robert Durst link Posted: 18 Mar 2015 07:52 PM PDT HOUSTON (AP) — A Los Angeles Police Department document examiner's erroneous handwriting analysis in 2001 delayed authorities linking millionaire Robert Durst to a friend's killing by as much as 16 months, a search warrant released Wednesday reveals.

One killed, five wounded in shooting spree in Phoenix suburb Posted: 18 Mar 2015 06:33 PM PDT By David Schwartz MESA, Ariz. (Reuters) - A gunman opened fire inside a motel room in the Phoenix suburb of Mesa on Wednesday, killing a man and wounding two women before shooting three more people as he sought to elude an exhaustive manhunt that ended in his capture, police said. Officers using a stun gun subdued the suspected gunman, identified as Ryan Elliot Giroux, 41, at a vacant condominium where he had taken refuge, some four hours after the initial shooting, Mesa police spokesman Esteban Flores told reporters.

Obama joins millions in U.S. college basketball madness Posted: 18 Mar 2015 06:00 PM PDT By Steve Ginsburg WASHINGTON (Reuters) - March Madness gripped the White House and lots of other workplaces on Wednesday as President Barack Obama joined an estimated 60 million Americans scrambling to make their predictions for the annual tournament to crown a collegiate basketball champion. Obama, appearing on the ESPN cable network to pick winners round by round, selected undefeated Kentucky to beat Villanova in the April 6 finals of the NCAA Tournament that begins in earnest on Thursday. Despite being a self-proclaimed basketball junkie, history is not on Obama's side. "I think Kentucky is going to take it," Obama told a Cleveland audience later in the day.

Starbucks brews backlash with debate on U.S. race relations Posted: 18 Mar 2015 04:40 PM PDT By Lisa Baertlein and Bill Rigby LOS ANGELES/SEATTLE (Reuters) - Starbucks Corp Chief Executive Howard Schultz has deftly navigated thorny issues such as gay marriage, gun control and Congressional gridlock, but his move to weigh in on U.S. race relations has brewed up a social media backlash. Former NBA star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar praised Schultz and the campaign in a Time.com column: "I'm in awe that he's willing to endure the snarky ridicule and lame coffee jokes from pundits as well as the inevitable death threats from clueless trolls." Still, Abdul-Jabbar, a Hall of Fame player who has been outspoken on racial issues for decades, questioned the execution of the plan: "He's picked the wrong venue with the wrong audience using the wrong spokespersons." Schultz said that the company would move forward with its plans despite the reaction.

Obama joins millions in U.S. college basketball madness Posted: 18 Mar 2015 03:51 PM PDT By Steve Ginsburg WASHINGTON (Reuters) - March Madness gripped the White House and lots of other workplaces on Wednesday as President Barack Obama joined an estimated 60 million Americans scrambling to make their predictions for the annual tournament to crown a collegiate basketball champion. Obama, appearing on the ESPN cable network to pick winners round by round, selected undefeated Kentucky to beat Villanova in the April 6 finals of the NCAA Tournament that begins in earnest on Thursday. The commander-in-chief leads legions in slacking off for "March Madness." "We live in an age of distractions. There are many things that our employers have to fight in the workplace today but there's nothing that compares to the unique event that is March Madness," said Andy Challenger, vice president of business development at global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

New York charges Narco Freedom executives in alleged Medicaid fraud scheme Posted: 18 Mar 2015 03:03 PM PDT By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Leaders of a Bronx nonprofit that provides drug and alcohol treatment to tens of thousands of New Yorkers have been indicted over an alleged scheme to plunder the charity and defraud Medicaid of more than $27 million, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said. The indictment announced Wednesday expands Schneiderman's criminal case announced last October against Narco Freedom Inc, its founder Alan Brand and his son Jason Brand. It also adds new criminal charges against the nonprofit's chief executive, Gerald Bethea, Controller Richard Gross, Alan Brand's son Jonathan Brand and employee John Cornachio.

Yahoo News’ Capitol Hill Bracket Challenge Posted: 18 Mar 2015 02:46 PM PDT Yahoo News got brackets from a half dozen members — including Speaker John Boehner of Ohio — that reveal not just these politicians' parochial biases or sports acumen. They also will show whether Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., ultimately is correct in his assessment that no one knows more about college basketball than his colleague, Sen. John Thune, R-S.D.

Glenn Beck: 'I'm out of the Republican Party — I am not a Republican' Posted: 18 Mar 2015 02:30 PM PDT The former Fox News host and founder of the Blaze says he's become so disillusioned with the GOP in recent years that he can no longer support them.

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